THE DAY AFTER

THE DAY AFTER

    Price: $395.00

    Code: 2643

    A film by Hong Sangsoo
    2018, 92 minutes

    South Korean Master Hong Sangsoo's 21st feature as director, The Day After, is a mordantly comic tale of infidelity and mistaken identity. Book publisher Bongwan's (Kwon Haehyo) marriage is on the rocks after his wife (Cho Yunhee) discovers the affair he's been having with his assistant (Kim Saebyuk). Now that relationship is ending too and Bongwan's new assistant, the sharp and sensitive Areum (Kim Minhee), on her first day in the office, is left to navigate the fallout of all the turnover in Bongwan's life.

    With its ingeniously destabilizing leaps through time and stark black and white cinematography, The Day After begins as a darkly hilarious story of a man embroiled in extramarital entanglements but soon shifts - in a way only Hong can manage - into a heartfelt portrayal of a young woman on a quest for spiritual fulfillment.


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    Festivals & Awards

    Official Selection - Cannes Film Festival
    Official Selection - The New York Film Festival
    Official Selection - Toronto International Film Festival
    Official Selection - Viennale
    Official Selection - CPH:PIX



    Reviews

    "A lovely, intricately fractured story — past and present seamlessly slip into each other."
    — Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

    "The Day After’s outsized, booze-fueled passions are consistently cut by the sly subtleties of Hong’s writing and editing and the film’s restrained formal elegance."
    — Andréa Picard, Cinema Scope

    "Ineffably soulful."
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire


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